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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

Today's Top Pick is the streaming premiere of Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.  I know next to nothing about the film or the series that spawned it, but it seems to have garnered near universal acclaim from those who saw it (95% Fresh). I have Hulu and I have the next week off so I will be checking it out.

It's a good day for those waiting for theatrical releases to make their streaming premieres.  In addition to Nirvanna, we also have Mortal Kombat II and Pressure.  I'm not sure there are two films that could be  more different beyond the need to suspend belief.  In one you have a multi-dimensional super-powered fighting tournament run by gods and in the other you have Brendan Frasier playing Eisenhower.

Frasier also supplies one of the voices for the Tubi original Breaking Bear.  It's an animated comedy series about three bears (Frasier, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Josh Gad) who start cooking meth in order to raise money to save their forest.  The trailer didn't do much for me (a lot of gross out sex jokes that reminded me of the recent Netflix series Mating Season) but it's got a weirdly stacked voice cast.

Also, Apple has The Dink, a sports comedy about an arrogant professional tennis player (Jake Johnson) who turns to Pickleball while recovering from an injury.  The trailer looks funny and somehow they managed to get Ed Harris to play Johnson's overbearing father.  I might watch just because the director is also helming the Spaceballs sequel.

⭐🎥 Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Hulu, 12:01 AM) STREAMING PREMIERE. 'When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.'

Elsewhere...

 PREMIERES

The Dink

🎥 The Dink (Apple, 12:01 AM) 'Washed up former tennis prodigy Dusty Boyd (Jake Johnson) has been reduced to coaching unruly children at his father Chuck's (Ed Harris) suburban country club. Desperate for his father's approval, Dusty blindly supports Chuck's vendetta against the new craze taking over the club: pickleball. But when Dusty reaggravates an old injury, taking away his ability to play tennis, he resorts to the unthinkable in the name of rehab.'

🎥 Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie (Hulu, 12:01 AM) STREAMING PREMIERE. 'When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.'

🔔 Adarsh Baal Vidyalaya (Amazon, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'In a dysfunctional Delhi Government School, a laidback headmaster's attempt at a fully paid Cambridge trip sparks a chaotic makeover attempt - forcing a ragtag team of teachers to fix the broken system, one blackboard lesson at a time.'

🎥 Chum (AMC+, 3:01 AM) 'Members of a wedding party in Malta encounter a bloodthirsty shark and a sinister fisherman who turns their celebration into a deadly trap. Forced between open water and a relentless human predator, the friends soon find themselves in a desperate fight for survival as secrets come to light and loyalties get tested.'

🎥 Saccharine (AMC+ / Shudder, 3:01 AM) 'Hana, a lovelorn medical student, becomes terrorized by a sinister force after taking part in an obscure weight-loss craze: eating human ashes.'

🔔 Life in the W (ESPN App, 3:01 AM) SPECIAL PRESENTATION. 'Captures the realities of life at the highest level of women’s basketball, offering viewers a front-row seat to the sacrifices, pressures, leadership responsibilities and defining moments that come with being among the game’s elite athletes.'

🎥 Mortal Kombat II (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) STREAMING PREMIERE. 'Fan favorite champions--now joined by Johnny Cage himself--are pitted against one another in the ultimate, no-holds barred, gory battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders.'

🎥 72 Hours (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'A forty-year-old executive hopes to save his flailing career by joining a group of twenty-somethings on a wild three-day bachelor party, after he's inadvertently added to their group text.'

🔔 Heartstopper: Ending on a Hi (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SPECIAL PRESENTATION. 'The behind the scenes special combines never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage, cast and crew interviews, larger cultural commentary, and fan input.'

🔔 Musafir Cafe (Netflix, 3:01 AM) SEASON ONE. 'Chander and Sudha feel an undeniable pull, but fate keeps them apart. Their brief love sparks Chander's journey to Musafir Cafe and eventually to Preeti.'

🎥 Someone, Someday (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'Follows a dating app CEO whose life is upended when she unknowingly befriends someone seeking revenge.'

🎥 The Truthers (Netflix, 3:01 AM) 'After her mother's sudden death, Ruth returns to her hometown and reunites with her father, whose odd behavior makes her question what really happened.'

🎥 Pressure (Peacock, 3:01 AM) STREAMING PREMIERE. 'In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, Pressure follows General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg as they face an impossible choice--launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.'

🐻 Breaking Bear (Tubi, 3:)1 AM) SEASON ONE. 'A family of bears run a drug empire to raise money to save their forest from frackers and an endless array of psychotic enemies.'

🎥 I Know Where You Live (Tubi, 3:01 AM) 'Sarah thinks she's found 'the one' until his flaws emerge. When she pulls away, chilling threats suggest he's watching her from inside her own home.'

🎥 Nowhere Left to Hide (LMN, 8:00 PM) 'A desperate woman starts over again in a small seaside town after faking her own death to escape from her abusive husband. But when he tracks her down, he starts to threaten the lives of those around her until she agrees to be with him forever.'

🔥 Roast My Rental (HGTV, 10:00 PM) SERIES PREMIERE. 'Follow Leslie Jones and designer Jasmine Roth as they transform rental disasters into guest-ready escapes in just a matter of days.'

RETURNING SHOWS

🔔 Sex Box (All Reality, 3:01 AM) SEASON TWO.

🔔 Soy Luna (Disney+ / Hulu, 3:01 AM) SEASON FOUR.

🔔 Euphoria: A Look Back (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) SPECIAL PRESENTATION.

Mortal Kombat II

STREAMING

🔔 Cape Fear (Apple, 12:01 AM) "The Scar"

🔔 Silo (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Whatever You Do, Don't Go Home"

🔔 Sugar (Apple, 12:01 AM) "Cautionary Tale"

🔔 Alliance (Amazon, 2:31 AM) "Episode 33"

🔔 Escape to the Country (Britbox, 12:01 AM) "North Somerset / Kent / The Isle of Man / North Yorkshire" 

🔔 Deep Revenge (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Proud (HBO Max, 3:01 AM) 

💖 Love Island (UK) (Hulu, 3:01 AM) 

🔔 Agent Kim Reactivated (Netflix, 3:01 AM) "Episode 9" 

🔔 The Chi (Paramount+, 3:01 AM) "The Last Dance" SERIES FINALE. 

🧼 Days of Our Lives (Peacock, 3:01 AM) 

👮🏻 Cops (Fox Nation, 6:00 PM) 

LIVE SPORTSBALL TODAY/TONIGHT

🏌🏻 2026 ISPS HANDA Senior Open - Round 2 (Golf, 8:30 AM)

⚽ International Friendly Soccer: Rossenborg BK vs. Man. United (CBSSPT, 12:00 PM)

🏈 2026 NFL FLAG Championships: High School Girls Division Round of 16 (ESPN2, 3:00 PM)

🏈 2026 NFL FLAG Championships: High School Girls Division Round of 16 (DisneyXD, 4:00 PM)

🏌🏻 PGA Tour Golf: 2026 3M Open - Round 2 (Golf, 4:00 PM)

🏈 2026 NFL FLAG Championships: Boys 14U Round of 16 (ESPN / DisneyXD, 5:00 PM)

🏈 2026 NFL FLAG Championships: Boys 14U Round of 16 (ESPN2, 6:00 PM)

⚾ MLB Baseball: New York Yankees at Philadelphia Phillies (Apple, 6:30 PM)

⚾ MLB Baseball: Toronto Blue Jays at Boston Red Sox (Apple. 7:00 PM)

🍌 Banana Ball: Bananas vs. Firefighters (ESPN2, 8:00 PM)

🏂🏻 X Games New Orleans 2026 (ESPN, 9:00 PM)

⚽ NWSL Soccer: Portland Thorns vs Gotham FC (Amazon, 10:00 PM)

Pressure

🕖EARLY PRIMETIME🕖

🧽 SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon, 5:00 PM) 'SpongeBob can't shake a group of elves who want to repay him for a good deed. A mime begins following (and imitating) SpongeBob, much to his annoyance.'

🪨📃✂️ Rock Paper Scissors (Nickelodeon, 5:30 PM) 'Scissors makes it an apartment rule to be hardcore, and Paper struggles to follow it. Scissors' therapist is on vacation as Logan the Rat Bro starts bullying him for figure skating.'

⭐ The Patrick Star Show (Nickelodeon, 6:00 PM) 'Patrick accidentally hypnotizes Bikini Bottom into GrandPats. Squidina leads Patrick on a grocery shopping mission.'

🐢 Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Nickelodeon, 6:30 PM) 'With his family under Kitsune's mind control, Raph no longer wants to fight; but he will have to fight in order to save everybody he loves before it's too late.'

🕖8:00 EASTERN / 🕖 7:00 CENTRAL

🐟 Deadliest Catch (Discovery Channel, 8:00 PM) 'On the Aleutian Lady, greenhorn Todd's abscessed tooth forces Rick to consider a costly return to Dutch Harbor. Sig hands new protégé Bob the helm for her first-ever opilio season.'

🔔 Powerbook III: Raising Kanan (Starz, 8:02 PM) 'Kanan and Tiana's relationship takes a turn; Garcia makes a bold move to get Juke her answers.'

👀 Big Brother (CBS, 8:00 PM) 
🎥 My Husband, My Enemy (LMN, 8:00 PM) 
🔔 Belle Collective (OWN, 8:00 PM) 

👮 On Patrol: First Shift (Reelz, 8:00 PM) 

🤼‍♂️ WWE's Friday Night Smackdown (USA, 8:00 PM) 
💖 Love After Lockup (WE, 8:00 PM) 

🕗 9:00 EASTERN / 🕖 8:00 CENTRAL

🔔 Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness (HBO, 9:00 PM) 'Larry plays a key role during the showdown at the O.K. Corral. President Lincoln receives advice from his Chief of Staff, Lawrence Butterfield. President Johnson recruits Butterfield to help convince a grieving Mary Todd to move out of the White House.'

👽 The Unexplained (History, 9:00 PM) 'Across the planet are places where nature behaves in ways that seem to defy explanation—forests where people vanish, deserts where signals fail, caves filled with toxic air and mountains no one dares to climb.'

🔔 20/20 (ABC, 9:00 PM) 
🐶 Totally Funny Animals (CW, 9:00 PM) 
🏠 My Lottery Dream Home (HGTV, 9:00 PM) 
👮 On Patrol: Live (Reelz, 9:00 PM) 
🏠 Zillow Gone Wild (HGTV, 9:30 PM) 

Saccharine

🕗 10:00 EASTERN / 🕖 9:00 CENTRAL

🔥 Roast My Rental (HGTV, 10:00 PM) 'Leslie travels to Temecula, Calif., and checks into a rental with more red flags than a wine tasting has red wines; filthy shag carpeting and an unsafe sleeping loft leave Jasmine starting from scratch to revive this once cozy cottage.'

🍽️ Everything on the Menu with Braun Strowman (USA, 10:00 PM) 'The Monster is in Houston on a mission for crawfish and Afro-Mex with Astro Josh Reddick. / In Seattle, Braun throws fish, catches giant clams, and dines with the godfather of sushi.'

👽 Mysteries from Above (History, 10:03 PM) 'Puzzle over an out-of-place relic from World War II and get a bird's-eye view of stone circles in Norway; examine mysterious, ancient mounds on the banks of the Mississippi and uncover the dark history of a medieval English village.'

💀 Dateline NBC (NBC, 10:00 PM) 

LATE NIGHT

🔔 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 11:34 PM) 'Actress Zendaya; actress Chrissy Metz; Phoebe Bridgers performs.'

🔔 Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC, 12:37 PM) 'Actress Anne Hathaway; actor Alan Ritchson.'

🔔 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC, 11:35 PM)
😂 Comics Unleashed (CBS, 11:35 PM) 
🔔 Nightline (ABC, 12:37 AM)
😂 Funny You Should Ask (CBS, 12:37 PM)

📺Broadcast/Cable/Satellite - RETRO BINGE📺

South Park (Comedy Central, 5:00 AM -2:00 PM); The Andy Griffiths Show (Sundance, 5:00 AM - 3:30 PM); Law & Order (Pop, 6:00 AM - 8:00 PM); Living Single (TV One, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); M*A*S*H* (TVLand, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM); Friends (TBS, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM); Gunsmoke (11:00 AM - 4:00 PM); Seinfeld (Comedy Central, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM); The Big Bang Theory (TBS, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM); The Andy Griffiths Show (TVLand, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM); Family Ties (Antenna, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM); The Office (Comedy Central, 5:00 PM - 11:00 PM); Three's Company (Antenna, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM); Barney Miller (Antenna, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM);  Everybody Loves Raymond (TVLand, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM); One Day at a Time (Antennae, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM); The Jeffersons (Antenna, 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM); Sanford & Son (Antenna, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM); The King of Queens (TVLand, 11:00 PM - 2:00 AM); The Golden Girls (Hallmark, 12:00 AM - 4:00 AM); Wings (Antenna, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM)

📺 Johnny Carson (Antenna, 11:00 PM) 'Comic Jack Benny; football player Joe Namath; actress Elke Sommer.' *Aired July 20, 1973*

Breaking Bear

Key Sources: The Futon Critic; Rotten Tomatoes; YouTube; TV Guide; TV Passport

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